Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism

<p>This book explores two themes in connection with contemporary capitalism: infrastructural capitalism as the most advanced phase of a modernity of which the “workman” or homo faber is the embodiment who exists within an infrastructure whose logic of connectivity is aimed at value extraction; and a landscape of ruins – in the form of symbolic misery the Anthropocene and a process of refeudalisation – that the homo faber has been piling up around himself as a result. In response to this dynamic the author elaborates a social cultural and political project – a “design hope” of both material and immaterial dimensions – that adopts the perspective of possibilism: an outlook that eschews ever greater social and environmental costs in the name of future “development” but seeks a logic of reproduction based on a real politics of care in the form of generalised social action.<em> The Ruins of Capitalism and Possibilism </em>will therefore appeal to scholars of social and political theory with interests in critiques of capitalism and alternative futures.</p>